Not far from the city there is an ancient wood, forgotten by the modern world, where Mystery walks in the moonlight. He wears the shape of a stag, or a goat, or a horned man wearing a cloak of leaves. He is summoned by the music of the pipes or a fire of bones on Midsummer's Evening. He is chased by the hunt and shadowed by the wild girl.
Charles de Lintpioneered the urban fantasy genre with critically acclaimed novels and stories set in and around the imaginary modern North American city of Newford:
The Onion Girl,
Moonheart,
The Ivory and the Horn, and the collection
Moonlight and Vines, for which he won the World Fantasy Award. Among de Lint's many other novels are
Mulengro,
Into the Green, and
The Little Country.
De Lint is a master of the modern urban folk tale. The Denver Post
It is hard to imagine urban fantasy done better then it is by de Lint at his best. Booklist
In de Lint's capable hands, modern fantasy becomes something other than escapism. It becomes folk song, the stuff of urban myth. The Phoenix Gazette
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